Clean Suede Tom of Finland
Lemon at the top is bright and almost bracing, but the citrus burns off fast.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Leather70
- Woody50
- Vanilla50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Aldehydes
- Lemon
- Pepper
- Birch Leaf
- Ambergris
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readLemon at the top is bright and almost bracing, but the citrus burns off fast. What follows is the signature suede accord — soft, slightly powdery, and built more like brushed nubuck than polished hide.
The leather here reads cleaner and lighter than most leather compositions. Vanilla rounds the suede with a gentle sweetness that makes the texture feel almost cashmere-like, and ambergris adds a salty-skin warmth without animalic snarl.
The overall character is a quiet study in skin and softness — leather stripped of its smoky or tarry edges, dressed in lemon and vanilla instead. It feels intimate rather than commanding, settling close and leaving a powdered suede impression that holds steady.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
